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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-01-22
Stricken With Blindness.

A Kalamazoo (Mich.) Telegraph
Reporter gives the following statement
OF DIR. G.. FRANCHISE, the we'll known
veterinary surgeon Of that city, in refer
ence to a case of blindness. The Doc
tor says:
"Four years ago last spring little
Willie, the four year-old son OF Mr..
Peter De Witt, relative of mine, re-
siding at that time in Milwaukee, Wis
consin, was taken with the measles.
The disease struck in ON him, and the
poor
LITTLE FELLOW WAS LEFT BLIND.
Distinguished physicians in Mil
waukee and Chicago were consulted,
and said that nothing could be done for
him, and that, blinded thus early, he
would continue sightless during his en-
tire life. While at Hot Springs Mr..
De Witt had heard the s. 8. 8. remedy,
manufactured at Atlanta, spoken OF
very highly. How it happened / don't
know for s. s. s. is not guaranteed to
cure blindness; but by some happy
chance it was decided to tests its effica-
cy in Willie's case. By the time he
had taken bottle and a half his eyes
had 80 far recovered that he could play
out OF doors. After taking four bottles
he was completely cured. His eyes
seemed perfectly sound, and have con-
tinued so ever SINCE"
"Here, Willie, Willie, come here!"
shouted the doctor suddenly, to an ac-
tive little boy dressed in knickerbock-
ers, who was playing in the street.
This is Willie De Witt. His father
used to be a railroad conductor, but he
is out West now on business, and VIII
lie is staying with us until he gets
back. He goes to the East Avenue
school every day, and never has the
least trouble with his eyesight. See
his eyes look as well as yours or mine. "
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-01-22
Good Results In Every Case.

d. A. Bradford, wholesale paper
dealer of Chattanooga, Tenn, writes.
that he was seriously afflicted with a
severe cold that settled on his lungs;
had tried many remedies without
benefit Being induced 10 try DIR.
Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton, did so and was entirely cured by
use OF a few bottles. Since which
time he has used it in his family for
all Coughs and Colds with best results,
This is the experience Of thousands
whose lives have been saved by this
Wonderful Discovery. Trial Bottles
free at Owen & Moore's Drug Store.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-01-22
Handsome christm.s Present a. Chicago

An agreeable Christmas surprise be-
fell Charles o. Ekholm, young Swede
Art Amateur, No. 153 Townsend ST.,
i'll Chicago who has been notified that
his one-fifth OF ticket in The Louisiana
State Lottery drew the first Capital
Prize of $4,000 in the November draw
ing, and the SIS, eco was placed in his
hands, for 81 sent to NJ. A. Dauphin,
New Orleans, La, and Mr.. Ekholm
will complete his Art studies. He is
full OF praise OF The Louisiana State
Lottery Company, and OF his luck com.
ing just before Christmss-Ch Chicago
Ssaas Zeitung, Dec %, 1886.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-01-22

entrusted shall careful and prompt
share business respectfully solicited JNO. w. FAX0N CO.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-01-22

Augusta, (Ga.) Chronicle-Wher a
northern politician of prominence dies
worth about $4,000 he is SAID to be
lamentably poor. Then a lot OF wealthy
friends subscribe to make his family
rich. When a southern politician oI
any note passes away quite poor indeed,
he has "the prayers OF the congrega-
ton,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-01-22

''How could you think Of calling
auntie stupid ? Go to her Immediately
and tell her you are sorry for it. y
Freddie goes to auntie, and says
"Auntie, I am real sorry you are 50
stupid"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-01-22

AGENTS Wanted Everywhere. Most
liberal terms. s. w. PEEK.
Prop'r Hartwell Nurseries
If Hartwell. Ga.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-01-22

AN Indian boy wanted to hang him
self after seven school girls had kissed
him.
, 1887-07-26
OFF FOR A VACATION.

An Act Often Too Selfish to be Entirely
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Swings Ideas.
The fact which mars the vacation of
tie average preacher is that there are so
many other people who cannot go out of
town into the large field of sunshine and
air and trees. He knows of scores of
human beings who need a change and a
rest as much as he does; he knows of
many whose body and soul are much
more bruised in the city treadmill than
are his; he knows clerks, officials, boys,
girls and laborers in general to whom a
week or a month in the kingdom of ma
ture and liberty would be an ~inexpressi-
BILE pleasure and good; to go from all these
and rattle off for a play spell is often an
act too full Of selfishness to be entirely
happy. 1t is too much like the effort Of
a good mother to go off on a pleasure trip
and leave the children behind. She
finds that sho has left her best happiness
behind along with the children.
There is plenty of nonsense in the no
ton that such mind workers as lawyers,
editors, writers and preachers form a pc
culiar class of sufferers, and that to them
a holiday is a matter of life or death.
The real fact is that all persons whose
pursuit involves a confinement to a room
or a building need alike the restoring
hand of nature. Nature attempts to heal
all her bruised reeds. Each night nature
comes with sleep TO build up the system
of man and beast; but if man has no place
for "A good sleep, and not time for the
restoration, his cheek o grows pale and
his hand trembles.
AT all times and in many ways nature
is q healing force. If a preacher, a law
yer, or a clerk, or a sewing girl has sat
in a for six or ten months away
from all those elements of air, light and
motion which contain power, then nature
longs to take hold of that famished pris-
oner and work upon him or her the great
healing art. 1t does not matter whether
the imprisoned person is a preacher or n
dressmaker, nature seems to desire to fill
the office of restorer. Indeed, this divine
healer would just as o apply her art to
a Robert Ingersoll as to lear Brother
Moody; for we are all round living in a
world where the rain and sun will heal a
bruised weed as kindly as they will a
stalk of wheat or corn. Nature will BAN
dage a grape vine and q mullen stalk
without respect to persons.
As to the current notion hat brain
work Is the enemy Of only the learned
professions, it must be kept in perpetual
remembrance that many a girl who is at
tempting to carry the burden Of life, sup
port self and a parent or a younger
brother performs an amount of brain
work not much surpassed by the profess
sional thinker. The worry over a SER
mon or a brief is not quite as wearing as
the worry over sisters doctor bill and
this months rent. The operator who
sits in a telegraph Office may do brain
work enough in a day to run a law Office
for the same length of time were the di-
rection of the power changed.-Professor
David Swing in Chicago Journal.
, 1887-07-26
A Look at CarIottn.

When her majesty passed neal where
! was standing l could see that she had
not changed greatly in appearance since
| saw her last, a year ago. Her face, al
though a little fuller, remained cold and
impassive, while her glance was directed
straight before her, as if she were look
ing in the distance for some missing OBJ
ject. She walked slowly, without speak
ing, and her promenade seemed like a
funeral rather than a recreation.
She strolled amid the most beautiful
flowers without taking the slightest no.
tice of them, and i should have gone
away believing that there had not been
the slightest improvement in her condi-
ton if, just as she was returning TO the
chateau, her face had not suddenly
lighted up with pleasure on seeing a
flock of birds that seemed to recog-
nize her as she approached. She
watched them for some time, and then
abruptly entered the salon, where, as
usual, n of the ladies played her a
passage from ''Nlignon," the noble in
valid keeping time with her head. Then
she talked a little with those around her
something she never did last year-the
conversation turning on dress, music and
the news of the day, thus indicating heI
ability to keep up n connected train Of
thought. On the whole the empress,
who is now Al, appears to have sensibly
improvGd.-Paris Cor. New York Star.
, 1887-07-26

There is no doubt that the agreeable
and fascinating persons who are always
in request as visitors put themselves
under a great deal of mental strain. 1t
is not easy to live in other peoples
houses, even for a few weeks. To sleep
in a new bed, to breakfast at an unusual
hour, to await the hostess pleasure Tor
the coachman's) as to whether you shall
have your afternoon drive, to talk to the
stupid member of the family, or to en-
lure the conceit of the brilliant one, all
require patience and self control. The
family dog may be IA brute of which one
is afraid. Every n who has paid many
visits knows of the disagreements which
haunt even the best regulated families.
Perhaps for this reason Colorless people
are generally chosen as model guests
persons who hTvc just enough anecdote
and not too much, sufficiently good look
ing TO please, 10 enough good looking to
alarm jealousy-the person who has no
disagreeable membranes to bring along,
the creature made up of tact and ready
ad%aptability. Such is the ideal visitor,
the person always sought for and seldom
found.-Harper's Bazaar.
, 1887-07-26
BEFORE DAWN.

-
The night passcth on toward the morrow,
II .t2rs fade away IN the gloom;
Aud ! call, with their joys and their sorrow,
The ghosts Of the past from their tomb.
By the whirlwinds and torrents OF passion;
by the wrecks thnt are left as a sign;
By each picture sweet memories fashion,
I summon thy spirit TO mine f.--r
II b, eds me and nestles beside me,
If 81 thy warm breathing at last;
Aud through ~gateways OF dreamland 7 guide thee
Back-back TO the realms Of the past.
Midst bowers OF roses our path leads,
We heed not the thorns II they gall,
For Joys that we grasp while the heart bleeds,
May still be the sweetest of oil.
Through castles that had no foundations,
Yet reached to the skies ere they fell,
And though frailest OF fancy's creations,
We're roads toward heaven or hell.
so the morn's woven into the morrow,
Twin threads in eternity's loom;
And the ghosts, with their joys and their sorrow,
Glide back to their shadowy tomb.
Charles L. Lawrence.
, 1887-07-26

The announcement made some time
ago that the type writer records in the
departments in Washington were fading
caused quite n furry in nearly every big
office and business house in the city, as
the type writer is now quite extensively
used. There are, it is said, between
40, 900 and 80, 900 in use in this country.
Many wills are now prepared with type
writers, and it will thus be seen that
much depends on the ink. Other legal
documents, scarcely less important, are
now written with the machine. After
considerable quiet investigation, it has
been found that the fault lay in the
quality of ink used. Black record rib
bons, whose ink is made of lamp black,
and the indelible copying ribbons insure
permanoncy for the writing. The mat
ter was so important that the examiner
of the chemical division of the United
States patent office investigated it at the
request of the secretary of the treasury.
He found that with the two ribbons
mentioned the ink is driven more deeply
into the paper than with a pen, and is
less susceptible to chemical agencies for
removing it. This assurance has again
brought the machine back into use, and
we are making wills with it the same as
beforo.-Lawyer in Globe-D Democrat.
, 1887-07-26

Edward Shepherd, of Harrisburg, Ill,
says: Having received so much benefit
from Electric Bitters, l feel it my duty to
let suffering humanity know it. Have
had a running sore on my leg for eight
years; my doctors told mt | would have
to have the bone scraped or leg amputa-
ted. | used, instead, three bottles of
Electric Bitters and seven boxes of Buck
lens Arnica Salve, and nay leg is now
sound and we'll"
Electric Bitters are sold at fifty cents a
bottle, and Bucklen's Arnica Salve at
twenty-five cents per box by w. N.Hunt.
, 1887-07-26

THE Douglas Budget says that a mem
orial addressed to the directors of the
Cheyenne & Northern, setting forth the
business interests of this section and guar.
anteeing a fair proportion OF the transpor-
tation of this section is being generally
signed by our bu siness men. Mr.. f. Jes'
sup, the contractor on the Douglas end OF
the Cheyenne 4 Northern grade, was in
the city yesterday after supplies. He
says the road is sure to come to Douglas;
hat it cannot 20 elsewhere. Recent in
telligence from ~Cheyenne-in such shape
that it cannot properly be given here,
serves to confirm the Budgets assertion
that this road will reach Douglas before
snow flies.
, 1887-07-26

The plan of Mr.. Max Schroff designs
the Grant to be over 200 feet
in length, seventy-ive feet wide, and 100
feet in height from the lower terrace.
Every part is intended to be in majestic
proportions. and one of the greatest
claims of the architect is based upon the
quiet and noble massing Of the parts. -
1t is estimated that the cost for the mon
umcnt will be about $500, 600, and the
component parts of the structure will b.
granite, marble, bronze and iron.
The New York Star is still struggling
to secure the required amount in sub.
scriptions. The figures do not yet reach
oyer S., 0
, 1887-07-26
JNO. r. CARROLL, Editor
Tnr kansas .City Cleveland invitation

THE Kansas City Cleveland invitation
has just been completed. The invitation
is in book form, making a volume eleven
inches long, sixteen inches wide, and
four inches thick. The binding is OF
sealskin. On the front cover of the
book, sunk in the binding, is a square of
white satin, bordered with blue plush.
Upon the satin, elegantly %engrossed, is
the following: Kansas City TO the
President and Mrs. Cleveland. Greet
ing. 1881" Upon the back Of the book,
in gold letters, is: Kansas City. Greet
ing" and below it: TO the President
and Mrs. Cleveland" On the title pages
is the word "Wenite." The water-color
pictures, by Mr.. 'Aarson, are punched to-
gether, following the title page in the fol-
lowing order: Kansas, Missouri, Texas,
Indian Territory, and Colorado. Then
comes the invitation, signed by 81, 500
citizens. The book was inclosed in a case
of imitation sealskin, embossed with gold
and lined with gold plush.
, 1887-07-26

! IT Is rather hard to tell what the morn
ing papers would do if they didn't have
the Tribune to point out the blundcrs
they had made. The evening paper
itself is such a model of Typographical
and literary excellence, its selections arc
made with such iudicious care and its
telegraphic news is OF such absorbing in
terest to the antiquarian, that it perhaps
feels itself justified in making captious
criticisms.
But we are forced to smile at the nerve
OF the people in presuming to give any
one instructions as to how to successfully
run a newspaper. Suppose they try q
little of their own medicine.
, 1887-07-26

The particular office Of flies appears to
be the consumption of those dead and
minute animals whose ~decaying myriads
would otherwise poison the air. 1t was
n remark of Linneus that three flies
could consum a dead horse sooner than
a lion could. He doubtless included the
families of three flies. A single fly, the
naturalist tells us, will sometimes pro-
duce 10000 larve, each of which in a
few days may be the parent of another
20, 900, and thus the descendants of three
flies will soon devoar an animal much
larger than a horse. Boston Budget.
, 1887-07-26
His luck is in politics, and he is not going
to fool it away on margins.
Big Worms for Gay Birds.
tSpringheld Union.l
The early drunkard catches the snakes.


The superior sort OI courage
There is proneness to look only to
Openly demonstrated heroism for cour-
age and never to grant its existence else
where. Courage, however, is not essen
TALLY a matter of noise and bombast, but
more often of the EXTREMIST quiet. The
man who. in the midst of poverty and
~privation, tolls u~nfinchingly and uncom-
plainingly for the ~sustenanCe of his fam
lily, in full consciousness of the fact that
he can never rise superior TO his misfor-
tune, is a man of courage. The man
who, intrusted with vast sums of gold,
which he might, if he would, make his
own, but who faithfully deals back to
each creditor his due-he is a man of
courage. The man who has views which
are in advance of his age, and with them
sufficient daring to coolly express and
calmly discuss them-he also has cou
age; but the bravest man of all-the one
who has the best and most u~nimpeacha-
BILE right and claim TO courage is the
man who TO shield and protect others ac-
cepts open insult and submits unmur-
muringly to open censure, criticism n
i%ndignity. This is harder han heading
an army, harder thar wearing a royal
CROWN, harder than preaching truth and
right to a generation of fools. In all my
life | nave known of but one such man;
and though | never nave met him l re-
we're him AS "a god; and yet the world
would question my sanity if L wrote his
name where it belongs, high up in the
list of heroes.-Georgc Sand in North
American Review.
, 1887-07-26

Your mind becomes habituated. Every
faculty of your nature, your memory,
your appetite, your natural cravings,
longings, everything about you from
the top of your head to the callous on
your heel, is dominated by habit. OBJ
v%iously, then, the lesson for the day and
the collect thereof suggest habits OF
mental elevation. moral excellence and
physical prudence.-Joe Howard's Letter.
, 1887-07-26

The Lander Mountdmeer says that
Governor Moonlight and Judge Miller
have reached Lander. From there they
will go to Miners Delight and Atlantic as
the guests of Col. Granier. They vii
then travel down the Sweetwater and the
Platte, intending to reach Cheyenne
about the 4th of August.
, 1887-07-26
BRIEF authority seems to turn the head

BRIEF authority seems to turn the heads
OF some men. If a revolver forms part
of the delegated authority "A calamity is
the result, as was the case at Chug yes
terday. The only wonder is that men
with so little sense as was shown by the
special deputies didn't accidentally shoot
themselves before they got SO far from
home.
, 1887-07-26

IT Is now said that Powderly will not
resign his position as general master
workman of the Knights of Labor, which
is an exceedingly fortunate circumstance
for that organization.
, 1887-07-26
A Hard Hit at congressman.
ISt. Lonis Globe-Demncrnt.I

1t is SAID of Queen Victoria that at a
recent garden party she looked quite
feeble, and took a.short promenade lean
ing on a stick. Some Democratic con-
gresham from Missouri must have hap
pened along about that time and offered
his arm to her majesty.
, 1887-07-26
Wagner &Ca.
sPpCrAIIsrs.

We offer no apology for deyoting SO much time
and attention 10 this much neglected class OF
diseases believing that no condition of humanity
is too wretched to merit the sympathy and beSl
services OF tine profession TO which we belong
as many are innocent sufferers, and that
the physician who devotes himself
10 relieving tho afflicted and saving
them from worse than death, is no les a
philanthrophist and a benefactor TO his race
than the surgeon or physician who by close APP
plication eXcels In any other branch OF his pro
iession. And, fortunately for humanity, the day
Is dawning when the false phlianthrophy that
condemned the victims of folly or crime, Ike
for, has passed away,
, 1887-07-26
Grover won,t.rry;tO corner.wheat.


Chicago'is..also,t to invite.thei' president.
If she fondly hopes that he is going to
put any Of his annual $4,000 into pork
or wheat she will be heavily disappointed.
, 1887-07-26
1t springs without warming.

The man who ~speculates in stocks
should bear in mind that a bell is never
runR to give notice when the drop is to be
sprung.
, 1887-07-26

M oNN OF the good things of this
NNoSsl life are sorrowfully let
alone on account of Dyspepsia. Ecker's
Dyspepsia Tablets will care Dyspepsia,
Indigestion and Constipation; sold on a
positive guarantee at 25 and 90 cents, by
DR.. w. N. Hunt.
, 1887-07-26

Get rid of that tired feeling as quick as
possible. Take Hoods Sarsaparilla, which
gives strength, a good appetite and health.
, 1887-07-26
PITH IN PARAGRAPHS
Led enc Hot Heads Look ont.

Now let some Iowa blabber try to
brighten the president away from Chicago,
and see how he will be walked on.
, 1887-07-26

Entered at ne Post ONCE, Cheyenne, WVo-
ming. for trdnSaisston through he EHdtLs as
seoond 6LdsE matter.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1887-08-20

''You are not as strong rs you need
to be. john" said fond wife 10 her
husband; Il think it is about time you
were getting some insurance on your
life." ''Insurance on my life! What
are you talking about: lam as healthy
as ever was; insurance. indeed!''
swell. my dear. I only mentioned it,
you know. out of respect for Yourself;
l thought you were falling" "And
what in the world put it into your head
that I am failing! Me failing? Why, I
am rs strong as horse. and can run
up three flights Of stairs without tsking
. breath" "Well, it may be 50; but l
am afraid you are deceiving yourself I"
"Deceiving myself! Goodness gracious,
woman. what do you mean?" 'Doa't
be 90 impatient; what makes me thin L
you are failing is this: When you were
courting me you could hold me on your
lap three hours; now you can not hold
the baby on your lap three minutes. I"
-BoseoS Courier.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1887-08-20
II imagine, said Martha Laidlaw,

Il imagine" said Martha Laidlaw,
who was seriOus-minded. ''those letters
mean Priest Of the Protestant Church. "
20. but he wasn't . bit like priest" "
objected Jenny; "and there are no
priests in the Protestant Church"
"Yes. there are" replied Martha.
''lf you read the service. you will see
lots about priests and deacons."
"What's the matter with you. Fanny
White?' inquired Molly. "You haven't
suggested any thing. and you're gen.
orally smart enough"
Il don't understand it." said Fanny.
quietly.
Some wilder interpretations than
those given above were made. but none
was found acceptable. and the meeting
broke up in as complete ignorance as
when it assembled.
Months passed on. and nothing more
was heard Of Harry Willard. Affairs
gradually resumed their wonted quiet
in Blue Posts. To the close observer
only two changes might have been no
ticeable as the possible result of Will
lard's visit: one was that the squaw
received and wrote several letters.
though up to that time she had never
been known to have a correspondent,
and it had not been suspected that she
could read or write; the other was that
Fanny White charged herself with look
ing out for the comfort Of the squaw-
task that had hitherto been irregularly
and fitfully performed by the charitable
Of the village.
1t was nearing New Years when. at
meeting Of the club. Fanny announced,
with little tremor in her voice. that
she had some important news to tell.
To the vociferous demand for immedi-
ate enlightenment she faltered: II am
going to be married on New Years."
.Who top was the general inquiry,
the correct use Of the pronouns being .
refinement unknown to Blue Posts.
Harry Willard"
Harry Willardr' exclaimed Jenny.
"But you have never seen him since he
left"
mo; but we've written to each other
. great deal"
"And pray how did that come about.
Miss Deceitful?"
"Au because Of those letters he put
on the card. You couldn't make them
out, but I thought l could. l never
asked him II was RIGHT. but fancy
was. Anyway. it's turned out all right. :"
'And what did you think the letters
meant, Mrs. Willard as is to be?'
"Why." answered Fanny. ''Please
Plan Correspondence" ."-Jmtian Mag
nss, in Harper's Bazar.